No Tech for ICE!

[Spanish version below – Versión en español a continuación]

Science for the People calls for solidarity pickets outside Microsoft, Salesforce, and Amazon stores and offices. We support tech workers protesting their company’s complicity in Trump’s separation of migrant families, a violation of international human rights laws.

The Trump administration has unleashed Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol to escalate their racist roundups of undocumented immigrants. The US government has detained and forcibly separated thousands of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.20,000 migrant children could be interned by the US government.

Amid the horror at the border, tech workers are saying #TechWontBuildIt. Already, 300 Microsoft workers have signed onto an open letter calling for an end to their company’s contract with ICE.

These actions at Microsoft and Salesforce come after thousands of Amazon and Google workers similarly protested their company’s complicity with immigration, law enforcement, and the military. This harkens back to one of the worst episodes of technology & repression: IBM’s infamous work to assist the Nazi genocide.

“We refuse to build the platform that powers ICE…and we refuse to contribute to tools that violate human rights…We demand a choice in what we build, and a say in how it is used.” (Amazon open letter)

Below are resources that you can use to picket complicit companies in your town.

Please send any photos and reports from your picket to sftp.publishing@gmail.com and share on social media: tag @sftporg (on Twitter and Facebook) and use the hashtags #TechWontBuildIt, #TechforthePeople, and #AbolishICE.